Regis Mark V wrote:tribal wyvern wrote:Brahma El Indio wrote:Aijul wrote:The most basic parts which compose the game.
Including:
Movement
Shooting other players
Communicating with other players
They all have remained the same, or are still in great need of improvement. Communication has improved much more than the other aspects from what I have seen so far.
Add:
Grouping mechanics
Player counts
Matchmaking logic
Bland maps
No proxy chat
Clearly there is about 2-3 years work left, at least, to turn this into a AAA release
The concept is great, but the development methodology, the testing methodology and overall execution is sub-par.
You don't get it do ya? Lol
when eve came out in 2003 it was bugged, and half the features in the game now were not present on release, its taken time to get it to what it is now.
Yes dust is buggy, yes it has problems, but over time it will improve. If this was going to be a disk release title then there would be worries but its not, its digital.
So because its digital that means its constantly evolving and having bugs fixed and features added. This is not final release code, its beta code. Upon final release it may still have some bugs and not all announced features will be present but that will change over time.
alot of people are coming into this BETA expecting a final release code, well it don't work that way. A game of this magnitude takes alot of time to develop and fix, the daily downtimes are not for ccp to go make tea and shoot pool........the daily downtimes are for fixing bugs. If ccp took dust offline altogether to fix it then y'all would be moaning about that too. If everything is not ironed out FOR release then it will be ironed out bit by bit AFTER release, just like eve was.......and look where eve is now.
It took them 10 YEARS to get EVE where it is now by that time PS5 would be on it's way. What will happen if PS4 drops and gets a planetside 2 port or Sony decides to give the Planetside devs a crack at MAG 2? 10 years is to long for a console game. This is why I said months ago CCP should just take it to the PC and be done with it.
I agree with Regis.
And I do get it. I've been saying in so many posts, there is at least three years of work to bring dust up to scratch to AAA standard.
There is no doubt that there will be a MAG 2 on PS4, probably a launch title.
The problem for ccp is that there will be better quality fps games, maybe not as deep in terms of mmo as dust, but better game play, and people won't play dust if it remains like this....
All a developer needs to do is make a 32vs32 game with clan battle support, solid FPS mechanics, a bit of eye candy and a perpetual clan leader board, and that'll be the end of dust on the console...
Now look at the sentence above and you see what ccp need to fix to stay in the game for a long time....
- increase player counts
- improved FPS mechanics
- better grouping mechanics
- better graphics
Those four things, done properly, will keep the game kicking with solid numbers from launch, for years, because dust already has the persistence and open universe sorted....